A dulcimer shell leans against a cane chair in the yard of Jean Thomas' "Wee House in the Wood," Ashland, Kentucky. This wooden frame will be used to create mountain dulcimer stringed instruments. Title supplied by cataloger.
A dulcimer shell sits on a cane chair in the yard of Jean Thomas' "Wee House in the Wood," Ashland, Kentucky. This wooden frame will be used to create mountain dulcimer stringed instruments. Title supplied by cataloger.
Two dulcimer shells lean against and lie on a cane chair in the yard of Jean Thomas' "Wee House in the Wood," Ashland, Kentucky. These wooden frames will be used to create mountain dulcimer stringed instruments. Title supplied by...
Youth organizations; Young Men's Hebrew Association (Louisville, Ky.); Cultural facilities; Auditoriums; Sports & recreation facilities; Gymnasiums
Large empty auditorium with wood floors, chairs along the walls, and a stage with curtains in the back. Address: 2nd Street and Jacob Street, Louisville, Kentucky.
A man with a long white beard, short hair and glasses stands in a covered work area. The walls and ceiling appear to be split logs. He stands in front of a wood bench that has brackets holding a piece of wood upright. His right foot is raised above...
Two men use a whipsaw, or long two-handled saw, in the woods in Harlan County, Kentucky, while three other men look on. One man stands on a tall platform with a large log laying along the platform that they are planing. The man on the other end of...
Jean Thomas, an old woman wearing a print vest, sits, talking and listening, in a series of photos taken by University of Louisville Curator of Photography Donald R. Anderson at a visit to Thomas "Wee House in the Wood" in Ashland,...
Jean Thomas, wearing a hat, sunglasses, and printed vest over a long-sleeve shirt, stands in the yard of her "Wee House in the Wood" in Ashland, Kentucky, looking at a photo or scrap of paper in her hand. Part of a series of photographs...
Women; Textiles; Costumes--Great Britain; Costumes--United States; American Folk Song Festival
Jean Thomas, wearing her "Narrator" costume of long black dress and white collar, displays a woven spread to two young women and a girl, who are also costumed for the American Folk Song Festival. Jean sits under the archway of her...
Jean Thomas, wearing a summer dress, sits outdoors in a wooden swing. Tygart Creek is in Wood County, West Virginia, although there is also a Tygarts Creek in northeastern Kentucky.
Women; Men; Mills; Streams; Religious communities; Shakers
A man and four women stand spaced apart behind a wooded stream which is in front of the old Shaker mill, a three-story building with a stone first floor and wood upper floors. The women wear dark dresses and white bonnets.
A woman in pantsuit and man in white suit with bow tie join Jean Thomas (right, in dress) in the yard of her 'Wee House in the Wood' in Ashland, Kentucky.
A woman in pantsuit and man in white suit with bow tie join Jean Thomas (right, in dress) in the yard of her 'Wee House in the Wood' in Ashland, Kentucky.
Women, men, and children stand around a wood and stone water mill. A man and woman in a mule-drawn carriage cross a small river or stream by the mill, which has a dam to its side. Several buildings and fences and perhaps an orchard are in the...
Jean Thomas (center) examines a McGuffey Reader with one woman while another rings a school bell outside the McGuffey Log School, Ashland, Kentucky. Thomas acquired possession of this schoolhouse (similar to the one she had attended as a child) in...
Jean Thomas (center) examines a McGuffey Reader with one woman while another rings a school bell outside the McGuffey Log School, Ashland, Kentucky. Thomas acquired possession of this schoolhouse (similar to the one she had attended as a child) in...
Jean Thomas, wearing a linsey-woolsey dress (derived from those worn in early England) with a scarf wrapped around her head, stands by a lamppost in the snowy yard of her 'Wee House in the Wood' in Ashland, Kentucky.
Jean Thomas, wearing a linsey-woolsey dress (derived from those worn in early England) with a scarf wrapped around her head, stands by a lamppost in the snowy yard of her 'Wee House in the Wood' in Ashland, Kentucky.
